Fire at Katoomba
LATE on Saturday night or early on Sunday morning the dwelling house of Mr. Thomas Weaver was razed to the earth. There is no telling how the fire originated, but it is our opinion that the flame…
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Fires & bushfires, 1889
8 stories in Blue Mountains's papers
Fire at Carcoar
CARCOAR, Monday.-- Shortly after 5 o'clock yesterday morning a fire was discovered by the railway night officer. The fire broke out in Russell's Courthouse Hotel, being mostly confined to the bat and…
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BATHURST. Monday.--a fire broke out yesterday shortly before 1 o'clock, at Mr. Jacob Knight's produce store, Durham- street. Smoke was first seen issuing from under the roof and the windows of the…
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MELBOURNE. Sunday.--The fear that two other lives had been lost at the disastrous fire at George and George's proved too true. From midnight on Friday the almost exhausted firemen worked…
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THE following account of the last glimpse obtained of the brave firemen, Laite and Johnson who lost their lives with M'Leod at the fire at George and George's establishment in College -street, Melbourne…
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PENRITH, Wednesday. About a quarter past 1 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in H. Addington's drapery and fancy goods store and auction mart in Station-street. The fire was first seen by a…
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MELBOURNE Monday. A disastrous fire broke out at [?] yesterday morning in a fruit shop adjoining the [?] News office, and spread with terrific rapidity through half a block of…
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The great fire which devastated Chicago in October, 1871, was one of the most destructive ever known, and will form a memorable event in the history not only of America, but…
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